talk about the most useless post of the century. like everyone is supposed to deduce 8800 GT(X/S) from that; let alone afford it.

diplomacy, what kind of help do you need? I recently built a new computer aswell.

I'm basically looking for someone to help me get a parts list going. I want to try to build my own because I've been looking at how, and what to do. Though I am not very comptuer saavy I think this will be a great little project for myself, but the problem is I have no idea what I need as a whole for a comptuer. I pretty much know the basics it's just everything else.

Then I'm not sure if I should use multiple sites or just 1 site to get my stuff because I know there are a few cheaper sites than new egg. If someone dosent mind helping me build a computer parts list (around 1k-1.3k) then I would greatly apperciate it.

well the PC I built cost me around 2k$ for a medium-higher end gaming PC. you can buy them from as many sites as you want, just make sure they are compatible (i.e. the RAM speed matches the mobo's RAM speed). although you should note the shipping costs for different e-tailers.. etc.

what you should do is, find the following components (don't worry about parts matching or whatever for now, just consider price range and read up on the reviews for a general overview):

CPU: Intel Core 2 DuoMotherboard: ASUS (prefferably) board that supports Core 2 Duo, P5 series is the best for the job.Ram: PC-8000 DDR2-1000 (1ghz) IF AVAILABLE ON BOARD. If not, settle for some DDR2-800 or DDR2-633.GPU: ATi Radeon X1900XTX/X1950XTX (Rather much teh same card, the 1950 has GDDR4 memory but it doesn't make a huge difference.Hard Drive: Personally, from experiance, the performance of hard drives (this doesn't count RAID).WD Raptor>WD Caviar>Maxtor Diamondmax>SG Barracuda

Checkout the prices on hard drives, and see which one would fit you best. Note raptors are really expensive, mainly because theyre the only drive that spins at 10k RPM, and have an incredible seek time.

Lets see here.. Might need help with the motherboard, cpu, and memory but tell me what you think. Any help you can offer is much apperciated, also I don't know which case to get but I think all of those I listed were top teir imo.

At most I'll hit the 1.5k mark. But I won't be like playing tons of computer games, mabye a good FPShooter, Xen, and a few games that I'll en dup un installing after a few months. I still want a good card, and a quiet comptuer... Just no slowness.

Why are you going intel if you aren't getting a Conroe? I haven't been up on the PC building scene for the past few months, but I'd think you could get a huge performance gain for the same cash if you switched to an AMD board/CPU (cheaper), then put that cash towards a better graphics card.